On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:48:31PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009/05/31 20:44, patrick keshishian wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm not sure if ports@ is the right list for these questions, > > but I think it is a good place to start. > > > > I have a PPTP VPN client that I'm trying to clean up for release. > > Part of my TODO list before release have to do with user-id to > > use and syslog. > > > > Currently the client switches to _ppp user after it is done > > with root privilege and chroot(2)-s to /var/empty. Is this > > acceptable? Is there another user-id that is preferred? > > You need to add a new unique user-id for the port (see > ports/infrastructure/db/user.list) and create it in PLIST > with @newuser/@newgroup. /var/empty is fine.
Hmm.. kinda feels like a waste to create a new user/group. The app doesn't write to any files nor does it have any config files (ATM). How about I stick with nobody? > > Also, ATM every log message is going to stderr/stdout. I want > > to send certain messages to syslog, but I'm not sure which > > facility is appropriate to use: LOG_DAEMON or one of the > > LOG_LOCAL[0-7] ones? > > I think probably LOG_DAEMON. OK. Thanks. --patrick
